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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. RDFox vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2020

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Roles, resources, and access types

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